Copy and paste does not work in the piano roll, what gives?

And alt-dragging?

test this: does cmd-c cmd-v work in, let's say, texteditor?

If not, reboot your Mac. If it does, continue:

close the pianoroll and reopen it.

problem persists? then:

close & save the session en reopen it.

problem persists? then:

quit Logic and restart it.

problem persists? then:

reboot your Mac.

problem persists? then:

reinstall OS X.

problem persists? then:

Have a drink.

Santana69 wrote:

LOL

I appreciate the time to try and help me figure this out.

Clearly those steps have not worked. I tried them all.

The CMD-C and CMD-V work in a text editor and not in Logic.

No go.

I will wait for any new responses. I am no re-installing logic or the OS for this fundamental operation.

I will opt to buy another DAW come upgrade time if a patch is not sent to fix this. I am checking out Cubase now becuase of this very incident.

Thanks,

Santana

Of course buying different software when something malfunctions in a way it very, very rarely if ever malfunctions for any other user, well, makes complete sense. What also makes complete sense, is your impressive threat to go all Cubase on poor defenseless Apple - I imagine they are in a scared cold sweat creating the patch you so forcefully demanded.

Please do keep in mind that we are all users here, I (and everybody else here, afaik) am not representing Apple or Logic in any way, and these sort of threats, well, they do come across as pretty infantile, because they're rather silly. You won't get a patch, because you very, very probably don't need one.

Both ways of copying work fine here. What happens when you option drag the notes, they just don't appear in the new position, just stay in the original spot? Try using copy/paste from the menu as well, that way you can also make sure they're not greyed out.

I'd agree with Erik, nobody else is having the problem so it's probably not a bug to be fixed but something corrupt on your machine (assuming it's not something like a weird custom key command). May need a reinstall of Logic or the OS or some similar fix, I'd start with the basic usual mac diagnostics, trash the prefs etc.

Woahhhh... that's English for hold your horses.

Santana, this feature absolutely works fine... there's clearly something you're doing that isn't right (the post you link to is also not the same issue by the looks of it). I agree reinstalling etc is no solution, but I think you need to approach this methodically (in a new project perhaps)...

I'd suggest you need to make sure that when you open the Piano Roll that you actually have the Piano Roll window selected (a white line border should appear round it). The one downside to Logics all-in-one window arrangement is that it's often difficult to tell which window is active. It could well be that you have the arrange page selected and copy & paste of MIDI notes in a region will not work as you described.

If this doesn't work, perhaps post a video of you performing the operation and we can see what you're doing wrong. I don't think this is corruption or preferences... but human error I'd imagine. This function works fine in Logic and has done for as long as I've known it (17+ years).

Santana69 wrote:

Smells like the same issue;

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3860657?tstart=0

No, it's not the same issue.

In that post the user is making a mistake.

The only thing I notice here is that the OP is using 9.1.7 on Snow Leopard, are any of the responders using this combination.

Copy Paste works as expected in 9.1.3 SL

Working fine here with 9.1.7 on 10.6.8 (and I'll bet 10.7 as well). Still sounds like a problem unique to one machine.

Santana69 wrote:

I am sure others are and may not be reporting it

Considering not a single person has reported it, I wouldn't count on it.

It's no fun to reinstall an OS or app but if either is corrupted that may be the only way to fix it, like it or not. Data on hard drives can get corrupted, it's a fact of life and can happen with any OS or app. If you're not even willing to try trashing the prefs (which takes seconds to do) or similar basic troubleshooting steps, you're probably not going to get it fixed.

This support article covers deleting preferences as well as a few other troubleshooting techniques...

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2375

However, are you starting projects using a template you've created using an older version of Logic, say Logic 8 or an early version of Logic 9?

If so, I'd try rebuilding the template from scratch in the version of Logic you're now using.

Thinking about it a bit, it sounds like a corrupted project.

I'm guessing if you use any of Logic's built in templates or create a quick one from scratch you will not have the paste problem.

Along with rebuilding a template, if the problem happens with specific sessions you could try fixing a potential corruption by starting a new session and importing tracks from the old one. Might fix something without having to totally redo a session from scratch.

I've had exactly the same problem. Think it may be a glitch with some copies of Logic Pro. You're not the only one!

Logic Pro 9.1.8
OS 10.9.4
2.7 Ghz Intel Core i5